Nothnitz Castle

Nöthnitz Castle (November 2010)

Nöthnitz Castle is located in the municipality of Bannewitz in the Free State of Saxony . It is located in the village of Nöthnitz on the southern city limits of Dresden not far from the BAB 17 (junction Dresden-Südvorstadt).

history

Nöthnitz and Nöthnitz Castle around 1850

Inner courtyard with a stair tower

View over the farm yard to the castle (November 2010)

View from the castle over the farmyard (November 2010)

Nöthnitz Castle Park

Today's palace complex is based on a medieval core, the property of which was transferred from the diocese of Meißen to the Saxon electors in 1453 . The electors lent property to noble families. In 1524 a manor was named Nöthnitz.

In 1629 the Upper Chamberlain and Court Marshal Heinrich von Taube bought Nöthnitz for 6500 guilders in Reichstädt . Around 1630 von Taube had the renaissance building of the castle built by a builder who is unknown today.

The new building is a U-shaped three-wing complex with a main building facing northwest and two side wings. In one corner of the courtyard there is an octagonal stair tower with a spiral staircase and window profiles from the first half of the 17th century. The cross vault on the ground floor of the main house also dates from the same period . A spacious farm yard is attached to the actual castle courtyard.

In 1681, Nöthnitz became the property of the Vitzthum von Eckstädt family . In 1739, after his marriage to Christiane von Arnim, the palace fell into the possession of Count Heinrich von Bünau , who from 1740 housed his 42,000-volume, publicly accessible private library from Dresden here . The Bünauische Bibliothek was known far beyond Nöthnitz at the time, it was one of the most extensive book collections in Saxony.

The archaeologist, antiquarian and art writer Johann Joachim Winckelmann from Stendal worked here as a librarian with Johann Michael Francke from 1748 to 1754 . He is considered the founder of scientific archeology and art history and the spiritual founder of classicism in German-speaking countries. He supported Bünau with his unfinished epochal history work on the German imperial and imperial history, the last volume of which concluded with the death of Konrad I in 918, but went as a manuscript to the Ottonians. Today a memorial plaque with Winckelmann's portrait commemorates his work.

During the Seven Years' War (1756–1763) the castle was badly damaged. The son of the same name and heir, Count Heinrich von Bünau, was forced for financial reasons to sell his father's private library to Elector Friedrich August III for 40,000 thalers in 1769 . for sale. The holdings were moved to Dresden and later formed the basis of today's Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library (SLUB).

During the Wars of Freedom , Nöthnitz Castle served in the Battle of Dresden on 25/26. August 1813 as the headquarters of Tsar Alexander I and Prince Karl Philipp zu Schwarzenberg .

Until 1945, the castle went through several changes of ownership. In 1871 it came into the possession of Chamberlain Rudolf Carl Freiherr von Finck , who had the palace rebuilt and modernized in 1872/73. The floor was increased by one floor. In continuation of the Bünau tradition, von Finck put together a new library.

In 1945 the wing of the building with the library burned down after a bomb hit. After the expropriation as part of the land reform , the property was declared public property and used as an agricultural school (engineering school for ornamental plants) including a boarding school.

In 1990 the castle became the property of the state of Saxony , which from 1991 rented it to Viktor Freiherr von Finck via the land utilization and management company and sold it to him in 1997. The future public use of the palace park, which has elements of a baroque garden and an English landscape park , was contractually stipulated by the Free State . Viktor Freiherr von Finck founded, among others, the Studienstätte Schloss Nöthnitz eV association in 1991 , which is dedicated to the memory of Johann Joachim Winckelmann and Heinrich von Bünau.

Some rooms of the partially renovated castle were used as a museum (Winckelmann memorial) with the Wolfgang von Wangenheim collection and as a cultural and event location until May 2009 .

The 89-year-old Freiherr von Finck († April 27, 2010), who was disabled after a fall, sold the castle to the Austro-Czech entrepreneur Jan David Horsky in April 2009 for reasons of age and illness. This filed an eviction action against the Verein Studienstätte Schloss Nöthnitz. The buildings of the farmyard are not renovated and are falling into disrepair.

The traces of the former Winckelmann exhibition lead to the Winckelmann Museum in Stendal and to the community center in Bannewitz .

owner

• Jenike Jawszk 1502–1509
• Franz Gauzt 1509-1524
• Georg Alnbeck 1524-1540
• Wenzel and Hieronymus Alnbeck 1540–1606
• Georg Bock 1606-1610
• Dr. Joachim Ziegler 1610–1629
• Heinrich von Taube 1629–1681
• Christoph Vitzthum von Eckstädt 1681–1712
• Gottlob Vitzthum von Eckstädt 1712–1713
• Henriette Helene Vitzthum von Eckstädt 1713–1719
• Rudolph von Bünau by marrying Henriette Helene Vitzthum von Eckstädt 1719–1720
• Captain Johann Christoph von Wolfframsdorff 1720–1732
• Christiane Elisabeth von Arnim 1732–1739
• Heinrich von Bünau through marriage with Christiane Elisabeth von Arnim 1739–1762
• Christiane Elisabeth von Arnim 1762–1766
• Heinrich II Count von Bünau 1766–1782
• Thank God Benjamin von Sahr 1792–1814
• Christiane Juliane von Sahr b. von Reizmann 1814-1820
• Julius Bernhard von Könneritz 1820–1871
• Rudolf Carl Freiherr von Finck 1871–1920
• Carl Freiherr von Finck 1920–1945 (expropriation in the course of the land reform)
• Public property 1945–1990
• Free State of Saxony 1990–1997
• Viktor Freiherr von Finck 1997-2009
• Jan David Horsky (Austrian-Czech entrepreneur) 2009–2012 † February 18, 2012
• Jan David Horsky jun.

See also

• List of castles and palaces in Saxony

literature

• Klaus-Werner Haupt: Johann Joachim Winckelmann among the scholars. Bertuch Verlag, Weimar 2018, ISBN 978-3-86397-096-3
• Klaus-Werner Haupt: Johann Winckelmann. Founder of classical archeology and modern art studies. Weimarer Verlagsgesellschaft, 2014, ISBN 978-3-86539-718-8
• Klaus-Werner Haupt: The two feathers of Johann Winckelmann. Or: if you recognize your luck and use it, it is worth it! Druckzone Cottbus GmbH, 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-038509-4
• Matthias Donath : Castles in Dresden and the surrounding area. Edition Sächsische Zeitung, Meißen 2007
• Ulrike Götz: Museum guide to Nöthnitz Castle. Memorial for Johann Joachim Winckelmann and Count Heinrich von Bünau . Chemnitz 1996
• Ulrike Götz: 10 years of study at Schloss Nöthnitz eV. In memory of JJ Winckelmann and Count Bünau . Bannewitz 2001
• Cormelius Gurlitt: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. Issue 24: Amtshauptmannschaft Dresden-Altstadt (Land), Dresden 1904 ( digitized version )

Web links

Commons : Schloss Nöthnitz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Colloquium in Nöthnitz 1974 on "Winckelmann as a librarian and excerptor" (Original publication in: Mitteilungen der Winckelmann-Gesellschaft, Stendal 1975, pp. 15-17) (PDF 120 kB)
2. ↑ ^{a b} An Austrian acquires Schloss Nöthnitz , Sächsische Zeitung of April 16, 2009, accessed on August 18, 2010
3. ↑ "The dispute between the Studienstätte Schloss Nöthnitz association and the owner Jan David Horsky remains undecided." SZ-online from January 10, 2011 (free preview)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically defective marked. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 9, 2011  
4. ^ "Eviction suit against Nöthnitzer Studienstätte" Sächsische Zeitung of January 5, 2011 (SZ-online subject to a charge) , accessed on February 6, 2011
5. ↑ The decay can be seen in the pictures in the article.
6. ↑ Exhibition and meeting center ( Memento of the original dated December 4, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @ winckelmann-gesellschaft.com "... part of the collection that Wolfgang von Wangenheim put together in almost two decades and recently donated to the Winckelmann Museum ..." 
7. ↑ Winckelmann jubilee in Bannewitz “The 300th birthday of Johann Joachim Winckelmann should also start in Bannewitz on the weekend of 22/23. September 2017 as the kick-off event for almost a year up to the 250th anniversary of his death on June 8th, 2018 ... On the occasion of the anniversary, the community of Bannewitz made a room available to the newly founded Bannewitz history association in the community center. "Winckelmannstube" will be his name and will house books on the history of art in the Mediterranean area, which were previously managed and available for viewing at the Nöthnitz Castle study site. "
8. ↑ [1]

Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 14 "  N , 13 ° 43 ′ 50"  E